From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 13:59:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05262 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05251 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA07889 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:57:57 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vDd2K-0003wuC; Wed, 16 Oct 96 13:57 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: CQ CQ de Jason , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use a logical partition References: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:17:50 -0700." Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:57:55 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, CQ CQ de Jason wrote: > > > My HD is currently partitioned as the following: > > sd0s1 DOS (primary) install Chinese version of Win95 > > sd0s2 DOS (primary) install English version of Win95 > > sd0s3 FreeBSD (primary) > > sd0s4 Extended > > sd0s5 DOS D:\ > > sd0s6 DOS E:\ > > sd0s7 *FreeBSD* (created by Linux fdisk) > > > > the problem here is I don't know how to use this sd0s7 under my FreeBSD. > > You don't. You must install FreeBSD to it's own slice. Heh? Why not? > sd0s7 would be the, oh, fourth logical disk in a DOS extended partition. or the third? sd0s4 is the extended partition and s5, s6, s7 are logical partitions contained therein, I think. > Looks like you're out of room...:( New disk perhaps? You don't just do this? cd /dev ./MAKEDEV sd0s7h to get the device files made, then proceed as usual (disklabel, etc) - assuming that the sd0s3 mentioned above is the boot partition and sd0s7 is just an extra FreeBSD "disk". Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org